John Ferraby

Who was John Ferraby?

John Ferraby was a British Bahá'í born in Southsea, England, into a liberal Jewish family. He was educated at Malvern College and King's College, Cambridge, to which he won a major scholarship. He became a Bahá'í in 1941 and was elected as secretary of the National Spiritual Assembly, which he remained until 1959.

In October 1957, Ferraby was appointed a Hand of the Cause of God by Shoghi Effendi. From 1959 to 1963, he served as one of the nine Custodians at the Bahá'í World Centre in Haifa, Israel.